PSC HSST English SR for SC/ST Model Questions and Answers: Part 2
26. Name the employment scheme of Government of India that guarantee 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled work.
(A) Janani Suraksha Yojana
(B) National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(C) Rajiv Avaz Yojana
(D) Admi Bima Yojana
Answer: B
27. The permission for import and export of Hazardous Waste in to or out of India is granted by
(A) Ministry of Shipping
(B) Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(C) Ministry of Environment and Forests
(D) None of these
Answer: C
28. Right to receive food security allowance is a guaranteed right according to
(A) The National Food Security Act, 2014
(B) Food Safety Standards Act, 2006
(C) Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954
(D) None of these
Answer: A
29. The information sought by an applicant under the Right to Information Act, 2005 shall be supplied within
(A) 15 days
(B) 45 days
(C) 30 days
(D) None of these
Answer: C
30. People’s Biodiversity Register shall contain comprehensive information on
(A) Availability and knowledge of local biological resources
(B) Medicinal and other uses of biological resources
(C) Traditional knowledge associated with biological resources
(D) All of these
Answer: D
31. Which play’s epilogue is considered as Shakespeare’s farewell to theatre?
(A) Henry VIII
(B) The Winter’s Tale
(C) The Tempest
(D) Measure for Measure
Answer: C
32. In Hamlet who says “The lady doth protest too much”?
(A) Hamlet
(B) Gertrude
(C) Polonius
(D) Ophelia
Answer: B
33. Lady Bellaston is a character from the novel
(A) Oliver Twist
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Tom Jones
(D) Joseph Andrews
Answer: C
34. In Pope’s Atticus passage of “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”, who is Atticus compared to in an attempt to describe his habit of blowing his own trumpet?
(A) Cato
(B) Cicero
(C) Catellus
(D) Sporus
Answer: A
35. Name the character in the Duchess of Malfi who may be described as a murderer who speaks poetry?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Antonio
(C) Bosola
(D) The Cardinal
Answer: C
36. In which work of Johnson does he mention the phrase ‘discordia concors’ to explain the wit of Metaphysical poets?
(A) Life of Cowley
(B) Life of Milton
(C) Life of Herbert
(D) Life of Addison
Answer: A
37. Which essay of Bacon starts with a reference to Pilate from the Bible?
(A) Of Studies
(B) Of Truth
(C) Of Love
(D) Of Death
Answer: B
38. Who is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales as “an outrider who loved hunting”?
(A) Knight
(B) Squire
(C) Friar
(D) Monk
Answer: D
39. A School for Scandal was performed for the first time at
(A) Drury Lane
(B) Queen’s Theatre
(C) Globe
(D) Playhouse
Answer: A
40. Who among Shakespeare’s characters said, “If music is the food of love, play on”?
(A) Malvolio
(B) Duke Orsino
(C) Antonio
(D) Sebastian
Answer: B
41. Which poem inspired Rossetti to pen the “The Blessed Damozel”?
(A) “The Raven”
(B) “Prophyria’s Lover”
(C) “Christabel”
(D) “Lucy Gray”
Answer: A
42. Name the Feminist critic who read Wuthering Heights as Emily Bronte’s myth about creation.
(A) Susan Gubar
(B) Elaine Showalter
(C) Sandra Gilbert
(D) Judith Fetterly
Answer: C
43. Which quality of his wife’s had, according to Henchard done him “more harm than the bitterest temper”?
(A) Piety
(B) Meekness
(C) Humility
(D) Modesty
Answer: B
44. Who is the author of Fearful Symmetry?
(A) C.M. Bowra
(B) M.H. Abrams
(C) Eric Auerbach
(D) Northrope Frye
Answer: D
45. “Behold the child among his new-born blisses”. Whose son is referred to in these lines from “Immortality Ode”?
(A) Wordsworth’s
(B) Coleridge’s
(C) Southey’s
(D) Shelley’s
Answer: B
46. “If Austen’s is an art of the cameo, Dicken’s is one of the poster”. Which critic said this?
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Arnold Kettle
(C) David Daiches
(D) David Lodge
Answer: A
47. Ernest is the fictitious identity of …………… in importance of Being Earnest.
(A) Jack Worthing
(B) Algernon
(C) Dr. Frederick
(D) Rev. Chasuble
Answer: A
48. Which character in Pride and Prejudice stands testimony to Austen’s distaste for high aristocracy?
(A) Catherine Morland
(B) Mrs. Norris
(C) Catherine de Bourgh
(D) Fanny Price
Answer: C
49. Which poem of Hopkins is dedicated to ‘Christ our Lord’?
(A) “God’s Grandeur”
(B) “Pied Beauty”
(C) “The Windhover”
(D) “Inversnaid”
Answer: C
50. Whom does Lamb describe as “the most irrelevant thing in nature”, “a lion in your path”, “A Lazarus at your door” and so on in one of his essays?
(A) A drunkard
(B) Poor relation
(C) A clerk in South Sea House
(D) A bachelor
Answer: B